A trip to the Andy Griffith Museum in North Carolina helps explain the actor's enduring legacy

The television star passed away at his home in Roanoke Island

Salon's TV picks for Monday, Sept. 13, 1999

The Jimmy Swaggart, Howdy Doody, Andy Griffith connection.

"Meat and potatoes" has long been an emblem for a particular kind of masculinity and nostalgic Americana

America's favorite weirdly schizophrenic magazine comes bound in leather in swanky hotel rooms.

Jon Favreau talks about "Dinner for Five," where Denis Leary eats with Famke Janssen, and Marilyn Manson terrorizes Daryl Hannah with stories about his amateur porn movies.

But Melanie says she and Antonio are burnin' up the sheets every day; will Hollywood make Harry Potter an American? Plus: Yuck! Jeweler claims Michael Jackson gooped-up $1.45 million wristwatch!

The dark and cynical "A Face in the Crowd" won't make you feel better about politics, but at least it's fiction

As the show struggles to replace Steve Carell, it's becoming increasingly obvious that it shouldn't even try

Surprise, surprise, surprise! The star of "The Andy Griffith Show" comes out and gets hitched

The first cheesy, delectable chapter of "Ugly Betty" closes -- how else? -- with carnage, car crashes and catfights!

I tried to persuade my Bush-hating, Baptist mother to vote to legalize marijuana in Nevada -- but she wouldn't believe her Savior was cool with pot.

The best and worst of TV's season-ending episodes.

Is "Six Feet Under" becoming too moralistic? Does the brilliant awkwardness of "Joe Schmo 2" outweigh the boring awkwardness of its stars? Plus: The countless joys of bride humiliation.